<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Mr Taylor, In my own early days with Ubuntu, I had this exact problem. Many thanks to Eric Krieger for his assistance then, which I shall attempt to pay forward. There may be extenuating circumstances that can complicate this, but give this process a try and we'll address any quirks if they come up: During boot, immediately after BIOS post, hold down the shift (used to be the ESC) key, which, if timed well, will show you a text based set of boot options in a "grub" menu. The top two options will be the latest kernel installed on the system. The 2nd of those top two options will mention "Rescue Mode", which is what we're looking for. Booting into rescue mode, will soon lead to another, different text based menu with several options. One of the options near the bottom of that list is to boot in as root. If it gets all the way to a pound (#) prompt then you are almost done since you are then root. Then running passwd <username> will enable you to reset that user's passwd without having to know the current passwd. <username> should be replaced by the username created during installation. It can be very difficult to get the SHIFT key pressed at just the right moment - especially on newer, faster machines, so that is likely going to be the hardest part. As long as /home was not encrypted during install, this process should get you going again. Note: There are numerous ways for this process to be prevented from working, but most Ubuntu users don't go through those steps until they have a specific reason for them. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/10/2013 06:39 PM, Researcher Taylor wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5166064E.6000403@lawlearners.org" type="cite"> Just re-installed and chose the option to not require password on startup. I didn't see the problem until I got an update notice. I typed the password and would not accept so I'm guessing that I accidentally hit another character and did realize it until the update. Is there a workaround to change your user password without knowing the old password? Thanks! <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- David Einerson 505-750-1878</pre> </body> </html>